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IMPROVEMENTMIN SOFT-CAKE MACHINES.

Specification foriningpart of Letters Patent No. 222,212, dated December 2, 1879; application filed January 23, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that'I, JOHNT. TRo'rT, of the townof Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have in`- vented a new and useful Improvement in Soft- Oake and Drop Machines, which improvement is fully set forthin the following specification and accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is Va vertical section of my softcake and drop machine. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the samewith the front bar removed, and Fig. 3 is a side elevation ot' my machine.

The object ot' my invention is to furnish a machine by means ot' which dough is pressed into certainA shapes `and dropped upon pans ready for baking.

The machine is to be placed in front of a stuffing-box, from whichA the dough is pressedV into the distributing-tubes by means ot' amovable plunger, or by any other means.

In the drawings, L L' are tubes for makingjumbles. L'l is a tube for making fingers, and P is a tube forjmaking a small cake or drop. G, G', and G" are pins running up through the tubes L,L', and L", respectively. H and H' are arms around the pins to hold them in the center of their respective tubes.

M M', M" ,and O' are slidesor rings, moving upon the tubes L, L', L", and P, the said slides or rings beingxed, by means ofiianges,in grooves in the front bar,X, and back bar, S, so as to move up and down with the front and back bars.

` The Isaid slides are so made as to work easily' on the tubes without any friction. I, l', and.

O are forming-plates, attached to the pins G' G' G", and corresponding with the openings of the tubes, and are regulated by nuts a, b,

i and c onfthe `t0p ot' the receiving-chamber.

`When the yforming-plates are raised, of

course the cakes dropping out of the tubes.

around. and over4 the forming-plates will be smaller than when the formingplates arel lowered. 4These forming-plates maybe either straight with the tubes or beveled`,as necessity or the consistency ot' the dough may require. Y

A is a shaft Linder the bed of the machine F, having the cams B and G attached thereto. D andD' are pins passing from the top of the receiving-chamber Lthrough the bars connecting the front and back bars and the bed of the machine, and working upon the ca-ms B and C.

The pins D and D' are txed immovably in the end bars, connecting the front and side bars, and move freely in the top of the receiving-chamber and in the bed ot' the machine, so that when the cams elevate these pins the front and back bars will be raised.

E and E' are springs placed around the'pins D and D', between the top ofthereceivingchamber and the end bars, con necting the front and back bars, so that when the cams permit the pins D and D' to fall they willi-all with force sufficient to cut ot't the dough that has been pressed out of the distributingtubes. The slides or rings attached to the front and back bars will cut oft' the dough that has been pressed out, and the dough will then fall upon the pans placed under the tubes in thei'equired shapes.

The tube P has two holes provided with lipsfr,

over which the dough passes, andwhen the `slide O' is pressed down by the springs the dough is cut ott' and falls upon the pan under it. These holes may be made of any shape, thus giving to cakes any form required.

R is the receiving-chamber, which opens at the back ci' the machine. T is a bar, forming the face of the receiVing-chamberR, y

The dough, being pressed from the stuffing, box by thev plunger, or by any other means, enters the receiving-chamber R, passes down the distributing-tubes L, L', L", and P, and issues from the tubes over the forming-plates fl 1'() and through the holes in the tube P,

being cut oft' by the slides M, M'M", and 0, which, being iixed to the front ,and back bars, X and S, are moved up and down by the cams B and C acting uponthe pins D and D'. The dough thus pressed out and cutot't' falls upon pans placed to receive it, and the same thing is repeated with every revolutionof theshaft A.

Having thus described my invention, what Y l claim as new, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is y 1. In al cake-machine, the combina-'tion of shaft A, cams B and (l, connected therewith,

pins D and D', springs E and E', front bar,

X, back bar, S, tube L, pin G, arms H, forming-plate I, slide M, and nut a, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a cake-machine, the combination of tube L, pin G, arms H, forming-plate I,11ut a, slide M, and a mechanism, substantially as described, ol'ieiating slide M, substantially as shown and described.

3. In a cake-machine, the combination of the tube L, forming-plate I, slide M, and a mechanism, substantially as described, operating slide M, all substantially as shown and described.

JOHN T. TROTT.

Witnesses:

FRANKLIN L. WELTON, NELSON P. WELTON. 

